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Synonyms for healthy

Synonyms for healthy: sound and tidy. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for healthy

Interchangeable with healthy in this sense

Audited under healthy's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one healthy carries in that sense.

soundadjective, in the sense "exercising or showing good judgment"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name healthy as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

tidytidy is an adjective in the sense "large in amount or extent or degree"

The first group is filed under healthy's own sense. The second reaches healthy from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.

The senseadjectiveTier 1, Foothills

exercising or showing good judgment

A healthy fear of rattlesnakes.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

sound

Same sentence, swapped: A sound fear of rattlesnakes.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for healthy in the sentence quoted.

respectable
salubrious
tall

Where healthy turns up in the game

healthy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where healthy is the trap

talladjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is marvelous, in the sense "too improbable to admit of belief", and healthy is one of the three tiles that lose.
talladjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is grandiloquent, in the sense "lofty in style", and healthy is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play healthy

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so healthy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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provisionsnounsuppliesa stock of food and other suppliesFoothillsFood and drinkHas a reason line publicnounworldpeople in general considered as a wholeFoothillsGroups and collectionsHas a reason line publiclyadverbopenlyopenly, in a way that others can see or know aboutFoothillsSocial lifeHas a reason line puckeredadjectivewrinkleddrawn together into small tight folds or wrinklesFoothillsShapesHas a reason line pullverbtakeremove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstractFoothillsChangeHas a reason line pulsenounheartbeatthe rhythmic beat of blood through the arteries, felt as a throbFoothillsThe bodyHas a reason line pupilnounstudenta person who is being taught, especially a schoolchildFoothillsPeople and rolesHas a reason line pushverbdrivestrive and make an effort to reach a goalFoothillsSocial life2 senses

The wrong tile gets explained too

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